Juraku monogatari 聚樂物語

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 16107.h.7
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1650-1670]
  • Language of Material
    • Japanese
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume Condition: Fair. No worm damage, but folios soiled, stained and slightly mutilated at lower edge. Impression: Atozuri, from considerably worn blocks. Illustrations: A total of 12 single-page and 6 double-page sumizuri woodcuts, distributed as follows: (maki 上) 3 single, 2 double; (maki 中) 8 single, 2 double; (maki 下) 1 single, 2 double. Seals of ownership: Square red seal with thick borders, Watanabe zō toshoin 渡辺藏圖書印, on first and last pages of maki 上. Also a vase-shaped red stamp in a square frame on last pages of maki 上 and 下.

Scope and Content

Variant title: Kanpaku juraku monogatari 關白聚樂物語. Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: N.p., n.d. [Keian 慶安 Kanbun 寛文 period, c. 1650-70 ?] . No colophon. Description: 3 kan, 3 satsu, in a chitsu case. (The 3 kan are designated 上, 中 and 下, but additionally numbered 1-4 on the hanshin: maki 上 part 1; maki 中 parts 2 and 3; maki 下 part 4.) (Maki 上) ff. 17; (中) ff. 11, 12; (下) ff. 14. 25.4 x 18.4 cm. Fukurotoji. Blockprint. Printing frame 22.1 x 17.1 cm. Single-line borders. No fishtail design on hanshin. Hiragana-majiri text with printed furigana. 16 lines to page, 26-28 characters to line. Original mid-brown covers, rubbed in places, with original printed title slips. Gedai: E-iri (tsunogaki in a roundel) kanpaku juraku monogatari 繪入 (角書) 關白聚樂物語. Title from mokurokudai and naidai at head of text in maki 上. Hashiragaki: [part no., no title] + folio no. Edition: Undated. A movable type edition of Kan'ei period and seihan editions of Kan'ei 17 (1640), Kan'ei ? (undated) and Meireki 2 (1656) ar known. The present copy belongs to none of these, and may be of Meireki period or later. Contents: A kana-zōshi story dealing with events centred on the overthrow and suicide of the kanpaku Hidetsugu 秀次, written in or soon after Kan'ei 2, 1625.

Access Information

Not Public Record(s)

Unrestricted

Acquisition Information

Acquired from Shibunkaku, 29 Jan. 1964.

Other Finding Aids

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993).C.Japanese works 和書 5.Literature - fiction 国文-小説 f.Kana-zōshi 仮名草子

Bibliography

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典, vol. 3, p. 300; text reprinted in Zoku gunsho ruijū 続群書類従, vol. 30 (上).